Why would people rather give their money to
EB/Gamestop than to developers?

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Someone will buy a brand new game on day 1 for $60. Beat it in a week and trade it back in for $30. GameStop sells that same game to someone else for $55 and the original guy buys someone elses just released used copy for $55. Wow I just saved myself $5!!! Duhrhurrrr!

And then the cycle repeats itself.

GameStop is ripping off the industry, but more importantly they are ripping off the gamers, their own customer base, but they're just too ignorant to realize it.

Riiiight, because used game prices are in no way affected by the same devs your claiming GS if killing?

You think GS would price there games that way because they can? It'd be soooo much easier to make a profit under cutting the industry but GS doesn't. GS prices the games that way so that consumers don't feel obligate to buy a game used.

Think about it, from a business point of view it doesn't make sense to sell a game at 5 bux cheaper but they do because the relationship with devs would be shattered if they sold the games at 15 bux or more cheaper used.

Ignorance plays both ways in this argument.

I play a lil bit of everything on a lil bit of everything.Not changing this until we get a Viewtiful Joe 3 or HD collection of VJ 1&2 (started 8/14/12)

Whatever the wholesale price the publishers charge the retailers of course

Fixed.

This is the biggest issue I'm seeing around here. People need to know the difference between developers and publishers. The developers get paid for creating the game. They get normal paychecks during the project and then nothing else. The publishers are the ones who charge the retailers for copies of the game.

Someone will buy a brand new game on day 1 for $60. Beat it in a week and trade it back in for $30. GameStop sells that same game to someone else for $55 and the original guy buys someone elses just released used copy for $55. Wow I just saved myself $5!!! Duhrhurrrr!

And then the cycle repeats itself.

GameStop is ripping off the industry, but more importantly they are ripping off the gamers, their own customer base, but they're just too ignorant to realize it.

Riiiight, because used game prices are in no way affected by the same devs your claiming GS if killing?

You think GS would price there games that way because they can? It'd be soooo much easier to make a profit under cutting the industry but GS doesn't. GS prices the games that way so that consumers don't feel obligate to buy a game used.

Think about it, from a business point of view it doesn't make sense to sell a game at 5 bux cheaper but they do because the relationship with devs would be shattered if they sold the games at 15 bux or more cheaper used.

Ignorance plays both ways in this argument.

Dude to hell with the developers they're already rich I really don't care about their pockets we just so happen to be in agreement. I'm more aggravated at the fact that the majority of their profits are ones that should have gone to the developers to begin with but they are ripping off their own customers in the process. They don't even attempt to make it seem like a good deal. $30 trade in for a $60 game that they are going to turn around and sell for $55 and make a $25 profit on?